BUCKLAND FARM
Historic Site — 8230 Buckland Mill Road, Gainesville, Fauquier County, Virginia
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/buckland-farm-virginia/

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

A historic site in Gainesville, Virginia, a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing, Buckland Farm is filed here for what the record attaches to it. NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad. It sits in the archive under dark history, Underground Railroad history and the Underground Railroad. The dossier holds 3 documented facts — a documented spine with no haunting reports attached. The site is open to visitors.

Buckland was chartered in 1798 as a mill town on Broad Run, laid out in forty-eight lots astride the Fauquier and Alexandria Turnpike — the first road in Virginia paved by the McAdam method. The 1835 Gazetteer counted about 130 whites and 50 Black residents, and that second number hid the anomaly: in a Virginia slavery town, Buckland's Black community included free, skilled laborers who owned land, houses, and — under the law's bleak arithmetic — people.

THE KINGS AND NED DISTILLER
Samuel King, recorded as a free man of color, is listed in the tax books owning four slaves — among them his wife Celia, whom he freed along with others in 1811. Celia outlived him by decades: she operated the turnpike tollgate, sold horse-shaped molasses cookies to travelers, and kept paying the taxes on Lot 38 through at least 1877. Another freedman, proud enough of his craft at the Buckland Distillery to refuse an owner's name, appears on the 1810 census as Ned Distiller; taxed as owner of Lot 13 from 1814, he built the circa-1820 house that preservationists now count among the rarest survivors in the district.
On October 19, 1863, the war ran straight down the turnpike. Stuart's Confederate cavalry broke Kilpatrick's command at Buckland Mills and chased it five miles toward Gainesville in a rout Stuart jokingly christened 'the Buckland Races' — Alfred Waud sketched it for Harper's Weekly. The tollgate, the distillery lot, and the mill town's paper record are what the Network to Freedom listing actually preserves: a place where freedom was, in a few documented lives, bought, baked, and taxed.

HISTORY — 3 documented facts
· NPS includes this site in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. Buckland Farm's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer the museum itself interprets. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01' documents the entry. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest.
· Buckland Farm is documented on the National Park Service Network to Freedom for its role in the Underground Railroad. A documented site gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that record. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The detail is preserved in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.
· The farm’s history is documented. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' documents the entry. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.

SOURCES — 3 cited
· Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01 — National Park Service
  https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/sortable_dataset/undergroundrailroad/F0E29766-00A1-12E5-C3D062151C3F7E26/nri-NTFListings6426NOPIItable.csv?t=1784017173223
· NPS Network to Freedom listing — National Park Service
  https://www.nps.gov/subjects/ugrr/index.htm
· Underground Railroad — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Railroad

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